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Re: Why doesn't ADA testsuite use newly built gnatchop/gnatmake?
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Rolf Ebert" <rolf dot ebert dot gcc at gmx dot de>
- Cc: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hjl at lucon dot org
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:13:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't ADA testsuite use newly built gnatchop/gnatmake?
- References: <20040304090117.A12717@dublin.act-europe.fr><18783.1078391446@www28.gmx.net>
"Rolf Ebert" <rolf.ebert.gcc@gmx.de> writes:
>> - The Ada testsuite uses the newly built gnatchop/gnatmake
>
> That's not completely true. run_all.sh uses gnatmake and gnatchop from the
> PATH and provides the --GCC= option for internal use of the newly built
> compiler.
If it's not testing the newly built gnatmake and gnatchop it's not
doing its job.
> But that should only be a problem if you modify gnatmake or gnatchop
> itself.
Or if gratuitous incompatibilities have been introduced between
the installed version of gnatmake/gnatchop and the just-built
version. I do not know whether this has happened, but I do not
trust it not to have.
zw